In recent years, we have seen those who call for trans rights and trans inclusion in society and public services, be they LGBT or feminist groups, become the bête-noire of the right. Whether it’s by tabloids, or backbench MPs, those…
Tag: Political Correctness
Vindication
…a tribunal has found Peter Hale was not racially motivated when he used the phrase “sub-continent elements” during a discussion about other doctors. And they went a bit further than simply clearing him of the accusation. In fact, they made…
“…But We’re Not Investigating Too Hard, Know What I Mean? *wink*
Residents in Hovefields Avenue, Hovefields Drive and Honiley Avenue, in Wickford have reported more than 40 lorry movements on Thursday and Friday, each taking hardcore to a piece of land being flattened. The Echo understands no planning permission has been…
Don’t Mention The [censored]!
A poster which aims to warn about the radicalisation of youngsters by terrorists does not feature the words radicalisation or terrorism because “they may seem scary” *sighs* …there are fears the lack of directness instead risks disguising the point of…
When ‘Not Guilty’ Means Nothing…
As a rape survivor, victim’s advocate and an actress in The Birth of a Nation, Gabrielle Union has found herself in an impossible position. Union recently, along with the much of the world, learned that her film’s director, writer, producer…
Stop The Pokémon Train, Someone’s Not Happy!
Pokémon Go is getting gamers outside, but not all gamers. Tales of trespassing, fence-jumping and brave jaunts through tough terrain to catch Pokémon have bolstered the hit mobile game’s popularity among able-bodied players. Oh oh! Physically handicapped fans of the…
Leeches…
A teenager is suing the Met Police and Islington council for repeatedly holding him in a cell overnight. The 14-year-old’s case is being brought by charity Just For Kids Law, which argued that the boy was kept in the “unsuitable”…
From Trump to Frexit — change is coming
The weekend marked an ominous turn in Donald Trump’s campaign. The violence in Chicago on Friday evening at the University of Illinois (UIC) Pavilion and surrounding area — including the Eisenhower Expressway — caused the billionaire to cancel his rally.…
Qwabe The Qwybaby…
The Oxford law student who accused his own university of normalising and propping-up the “existence of systemic racism” has said he is growing tired of the ‘why go to Oxford?’ question being asked by the public. Awwww, diddums! Did you…
It’s The Readers Who’ll Decide, Love…
Dreda Say Mitchell on the apparent demand that black authors write only about black issues: It’s clear from James’s writing that he’s not just a “writer of colour” either – no black author is. If he wants to insist on…
No Saucy Front Covers Please, We’re British!
When Jilly Cooper’s seminal “bonkbuster” novel Riders was re-released earlier this year with a “sanitised” cover, it was decried as a symbol of political correctness gone too far. Now, however, the best-selling author has disclosed that she ordered it to…
Oh, Please! Pull The Other One…
Officers arrested 16 people living on the site in connection with the production of cannabis and three others in connection with separate offences. They said a ‘small minority of individuals’ with links to the site had been involved. Right, right.…
I Thought Only The Nazis Banned Books…?
…guess we now have politicians who want to ban books by Nazis: Scottish Labour MP Thomas Docherty is calling for a national debate on whether the sale of Adolf Hitler’s “repulsive” manifesto Mein Kampf should be prohibited in the UK.…
Sorry, UKIP, You Don’t Get To Run With The Hare And Hunt With The Hounds…
…just like you don’t get to impose necessary restrictions on halal slaughter and let shechita slaughter slip by unnoticed: …Mr Agnew said the policy was not meant to target shechita. “This isn’t aimed at you – it’s aimed elsewhere –…
No, There’s Something Else That Makes This ‘Particularly Reprehensible’…
Chief Inspector Martin Brennan, from West Midlands Police’s Serious and Organised Crime Unit, said the cars and greed gave the men away. He said: ‘This was a highly-organised and well-orchestrated criminal network but what makes it particularly reprehensible is that…